Wayne and Nancy have separate adolescent experiences that both inspire and confuse the romantic ambitions they feel drawn to. During the turbulent 1960 s, they meet while he is attending blue-collar Drexel, and she is at neighboring Ivy League Penn.

Though irresistibly drawn to each other, they must overcome obstacles posed by the class, financial, and religious differences that separate them, as well as opposition from both families, and later, a twist of fate that will be the cruelest test of all.

Can they reach the goal they seek? Can they overcome time s downward pulling inertia? Soaring and poignant, Coinage of Commitment is dedicated to all those readers who ever wondered, perhaps with whimsy, perhaps with hope, just what is the level that love can possibly reach?